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Sociological Theory from Dialogic Democracy [PDF]

open access: yesRIMCIS, 2019
Despite the long dialogical tradition both in Eastern and Western societies, in recent years the social dialogical turn is more and more evident in many domains of life.
Elisabeth Torras-Gómez   +2 more
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A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article contests the contention that sociology lacks a sound theoretical approach to the study of race and racism, instead arguing that a comprehensive and critical sociological theory of race and racism exists.
Tanya Golash‐Boza
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

A Prospectus of Sociological Theory [PDF]

open access: greenAmerican Journal of Sociology, 1920
NoTE.-In recent years the writer has introduced graduate students to general sociology by a course in the Autumn Quarter on the evolution of sociological method since i8oo. This course has been followed in the Winter Quarter by an outline of general sociology. The present paper is made up of three introductions to this latter course.
Albion W. Small
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Later life, inequality and sociological theory [PDF]

open access: green, 1999
A central concern of many theorists of later life has been to elucidate the processes which shape the marginalisation and relative disadvantage of older people in contemporary society.
Sarah Irwin
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Brazilian sociological theory and postcolonial criticism [PDF]

open access: yesSociedade e Estado, 2023
The article discusses to what extent sociological theories produced in the Brazilian academic field dialogue with a global intellectual movement criticizing coloniality and the Eurocentric foundations of the social sciences.
Lucas Amaral de Oliveira   +1 more
doaj   +4 more sources

An Introduction to Sociological Theory.

open access: greenAmerican Sociological Review, 1960
Mode of access: Internet.
Roscoe C. Hinkle, Margaret Wilson Vine
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Sociology, Theory, and the Feminist Sociological Canon [PDF]

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2017
In this article, I revisit the concept of “doing gender” to query whether the framework as directly articulated by West and Zimmerman is meant to be a description of social life (a social theory) or a testable and potentially falsifiable explanation of ...
Shannon N. Davis
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Herbert Spencer, Sociological Theory, and the Professions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2019
This article presents new insights into Spencer's theoretical sociology as he applied it to the professions and professional institutions, which he discussed extensively, particularly in his Principles of Sociology.
John Offer
doaj   +2 more sources

Interplay between tie strength and neighbourhood topology in complex networks. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Granovetter's weak ties theory is a very important sociological theory according to which a correlation between edge weight and the network's topology should exist. More specifically, the neighbourhood overlap of two nodes connected by an edge should be positively correlated with edge weight (tie strength).
Mrowinski MJ   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Sociology and constructivist perspective: Sociological theory and constructivist meta-theory

open access: bronzeZbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, 2003
In this paper, the author considers relation between sociology and constructivist perspective, which is one of the most current approaches in social science. Even though social constructivism offered significant alternative to contemporary sociology: opposite in the to the traditional paradigms, it is not a homogeneous meta-theory yet.
Dušan Marinković
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